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How U.S. Can Resurrect Nonproliferation Regime

Updated May 22, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

Stephen Rademaker evidently believes that arms control activists consider nuclear proliferation to be rooted in U.S. nuclear policy ("Blame America First," editorial page, May 7). Not so. We understand that countries like North Korea and Iran have their own motivations for pursuing a nuclear option. Nevertheless, the attitudes and policies of the nine nuclear weapons states are also part of the picture. It is as fatuous to claim that U.S. development of a new generation of nuclear warheads -- the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program -- will have no bad impact on nuclear proliferation as it is...